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Sport
Matthew Ketchell

Is football being hijacked by fashion?

Man wearing a Nike Nigeria shirt from World Cup 2018.

Hype, drops, collabs, countdowns. In recent years the football shirt market has adopted a parlance more familiar with high end fashion houses than football club changing rooms and terraces. 

Fashion has overtaken function when it comes to football kits with the technological aspect of a shirt seemingly reaching its limit. The percentages have been gained and now designers are focusing on a new frontier: aesthetics.

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